{"id":14808,"date":"2022-02-01T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14808"},"modified":"2022-01-30T12:12:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:12:49","slug":"big-joy-the-adventures-of-james-broughton-2013-silha-slade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14808","title":{"rendered":"Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (2013, Silha &#038; Slade)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about a San Franciscan fave of the Anthology Film Archives and the <em>Visionary Film<\/em> book I keep at my bedside.  I&#8217;ve skimmed Broughton&#8217;s own filmmaking book <em>Making Light of It<\/em>, which I bought because of its great title, but my book collection is a shambles and I can&#8217;t find it right now.<\/p>\n<p>He hangs out with other poets, including Anais Nin, starts filming with <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6412\">The Potted Psalm<\/a><\/em>, then <em>Mother&#8217;s Day<\/em> is his solo debut.  He goes to Europe with his first films and makes <em>The Pleasure Garden<\/em> in England, which goes to Cannes, where he&#8217;s presented an award by his hero (and mine) Jean Cocteau&#8230; is offered commercial film work, but turns it down, and doesn&#8217;t make another film for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/broughton1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Lotta stock footage with talking heads.  I respect that the doc tells its own story instead of sticking to strict chronological order, but don&#8217;t respect that it motion-graphics one of Broughton&#8217;s poems.  It spends more time on his love affairs than his post-1960&#8217;s work (he had a kid with Pauline Kael, then cheerfully proclaimed homosexuality late in life).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d only previously seen his <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11260\">Four in the Afternoon<\/a><\/em>, and the collab with Sidney Peterson &#8211; the hope was to watch a bunch more after this doc, but only got to one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Loony Tom<\/em> (1951, James Broughton)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom will not rest until he has kissed every girl in the countryside.  A straightforward randy romp, with piano music and a spoken poem at the top and tail.  Broughton&#8217;s friend Kermit was quite good at being a silent comedy star.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/broughton2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about a San Franciscan fave of the Anthology Film Archives and the Visionary Film book I keep at my bedside. I&#8217;ve skimmed Broughton&#8217;s own filmmaking book Making Light of It, which I bought because of its great title, but my book collection is a shambles and I can&#8217;t find it right now. He hangs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,93,91,1303,2210],"class_list":["post-14808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-documentary","tag-filmmaking","tag-james-broughton","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14831,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions\/14831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}